Optimistic Quotes - Page 31

• The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.

  Freeman Dyson

  India, China, Wells

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• I think that I'm a really optimistic person.

  Jason Rezaian

  Thinking, Persons, Optimistic Person

  "From captivity to classroom". Interview with Christina Pazzanese, news.harvard.edu. September 12, 2016.

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• It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, America, Ties

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• When I was a very young student I loved and admired the work of Sam Beckett, who is famously pessimistic, and whose writing is an extraordinary examination of emptiness. I wanted to be like Beckett. I don't have the same attitude toward the world, I'm naturally optimistic, and so of course I could never be like Beckett. You can't force yourself to become like someone you admire.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Attitude, Writing, Pessimistic

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• I do think that I am generally optimistic.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I'm known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.

  Al Yankovic

  Guy, Energy, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• More than 70 percent of Colombians want peace. The rest are afraid of the price to be paid. But even they will realize that their worst fears will not come true. I'm quite optimistic that Colombians do back an agreement with the FARC.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Agreement, Want, Realizing

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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• Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about what sorts of changes we can make.

  Jonathon Keats

  Engineering, Way, Irresponsible

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Government, People, Longing

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Noble, Phrases

  Storm Jameson (1966). “The Early Life of Stephen Hind”

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• It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.

  Margery Allingham

  Disappointment, Spring, Agony

  Margery Allingham (1943). “The Galantrys”

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• I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

  Kevin Cramer

  Ideas, Conservative, Joyful

  "New House members of 113th Congress: A-B-C". POLITICO Interview, www.politico.com. January 17, 2013.

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• Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has proved groundless. In fact, in the face of a general regression in the level of civilization, it's never the best works that will be saved through an automatic process of natural selection.

  Lucio Russo

  Writing, Views, Civilization

  Lucio Russo, Silvio (translator) Levy (2013). “The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn”, p.8, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end.

  Graeme Base

  Thinking, Stories, Ends

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• Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success.

  Dalai Lama

  Determination, Attitude, Keys

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• I have this insane optimistic streak that the American people prevail over the stupidity that the leadership exhibits time and time again, and I think that's the truth.

  Lewis Black

  Thinking, People, Stupidity

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• Have you ever studied a snake's face? - how optimistic they look. They have an eternal smile.

  Tasha Tudor

  Snakes, Looks, Faces

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• Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds ahead on its divine wings. What we cannot see, desire describes, and then it goads us to travel on until we have given birth to Joy.

  Wendy Farley

  Wings, Joy, Desire

  Wendy Farley (2005). “The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth”, p.16, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.

  Cate Blanchett

  Children, World, Moments

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• I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.

  Mamie Gummer

  Outspoken, Gregarious, Persons

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• And uh, so, I'm running for a reason. I'm answering this question here and the answer is, you cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative. And so to answer your question, I'm going to win because people sense my heart, know my sense of optimism and know where I want to lead the country. And I tease people by saying, "A leader, you can't say, follow me the world is going to be worse." I'm an optimistic person. I'm an inherently content person.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Running, Revenge

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• The BJP is an optimistic party. Our strength and our democratic values are such that even a poor person from a backward section - like me - has been nominated as a Prime Ministerial candidate.

  Narendra Modi

  Party, Bjp, Empowerment

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• Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war.

  George W. Bush

  War, Thinking, Opposites

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• I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

  Jon Anderson

  Thinking, Optimism, Choices

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• I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Thinking, Without Hope

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